While research to date at the national level has
adequately illustrated the nature and extent of class
bias in Irish education, there has been little attempt
to examine the spatial organisation of the system at the
local ...

Considerable spatial variation characterized the pattern of return migration and subsequent house construction during the 1970s in the northwest. Ireland's poorest and most peripheral region. Underlying this pattern of ...

The relative position of the Irish immigrant population in Australia has been radically transformed during the present century, from being the largest non-British ethnic group to one of the smallest immigrant minorities. ...

This paper has a twofold objective. Firstly, recent land policy both at EEC and Irish government levels is evaluated from the perspective of the small family farm in County Lcitrim. one of Ireland's most marginal farming ...

For many years, geographers have concerned themselves with
the spatial dimension of economic development and with the
fact that the pattern of development, whether it occurs under
capitalist or socialist regimes, tends ...

From the 1880s onwards, the west coast of Ireland — particularly the Congested Districts — formed a major source area of emigration to North America. This paper focuses on part of that outflow from Cois Fharraige. west of ...

Two hundred and seven persons over 65 years of age were interviewed to determine the impact of crime on their lives. The setting was during a much
publicised series of assaults on the rural elderly in their homes. Seventy ...

Since the short-lived interlude of impressive growth and prosperity
in the 1970s, the dual scourges of involuntary emigration and high
unemployment have returned to plague Irish society. Having
increasingly become part ...

This paper examines how information technology (IT) might be exploited to promote rural development; it also considers how IT impacts on the rural periphery. The appropriate adaptation of this technology for indigenous ...

While there is widespread concern throughout Europe during the
current period of economic recession with high levels of
unemployment and the recent upsurge in refugee movements
associated with the serious ethnic conflict ...

The European Council, at its meeting in Copenhagen in June 1993, reaffirmed the growth initiatives endorsed in Edinburgh the previous December and at the ECOFIN meeting in April 1993. The conclusions of the European Council ...

This paper examines the influence of population control ideology on the draft plan for the UN Cairo Conference on Population and Development. It is argued that this draft plan can only be fully understood in the context ...

Despite the many negative indicators such as falling population and high
emigration which are characteristic of the Northwest, the town of
Ballymote appears to be booming. In explaining this apparent contradiction,
...

The 1987 Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, Solicitudo Rei Socialis is a most remarkable statement on the problem of development, particularly in relation to the Third World. While following the tradition of the social ...

From its beginning as a systematic branch of knowledge, human geography was strongly influenced by developments in the other branches of the social sciences. Once a predominantly descriptive and ideographic discipline, ...

n this essay I analyse the role of space in key texts belonging to the tradition of phenomenology. Starting from the assumption that phenomenology is uniquely positioned to answer the epistemological challenges posed by ...

This article is an evaluation of Ireland’s participation in the Telematics Applications Programme (TAP), which was part of the European Commission’s Fourth Framework Programme for the period 1994–1998. TAP was primarily ...

Cawley, Mary(Social Sciences Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway and Teagasc Agricultural and Food Development Authority, 2004)

As part of an ongoing response to the 1992 reform of the CAP and the 1993
GATT agreement, the European Commission (EC) provided support for
research on the development of new markets, products and processes for
agricultural ...